Family Friday and a Haaaaaaaaappy New Year!

Hi Everybody!
It's time for Family Friday!  Are you all ready for the New Year?  I know I am.  We've had some CRAZY (no pun intended!) stuff happen with our family this year, some good and some bad.  I am definitely ready to start the new year, which already promises to be a much brighter one!  Here are my Top 5 Favorite crafty things that happened to me this year:

1. Having my blog grow by LEAPS and BOUNDS!  I had no idea when I started it that I would be lucky enough to be able to share my passion with so many people.

2. Making some AMAZING friends.  Sarah (Pink Cricut), Michelle (Scrappin With My Bug), Theresa (The Scrapbooking Queen), Christel (Scrappin Sista), Karel (One By One the Flamingo's Are Stealing my Sanity),  and Emma (My Creative Time), and Candace (Papercrafts by Candace) are only a few of them.  There are a TON more, I wish I could list them all! 

3. When I created the Family Friday Design Team.  Family is VERY important to me, and I was ecstatic to find so many people who shared my passion for crafting and family.  So first, let me wish all of my Design Team Cheryl, Rhonda, Raven, Becky, Erika, Nicole, Abby, Kassidy, Sharon, and Christel a very Happy New Year, and thank you for joining me in celebrating family! 

4. Discovering Peachy Keen Stamps!  I feel like PKS did for my die cuts what the Cricut did for my crafting.  They just took it to a whole 'nother level for me.  I can't wait to use them more and more, and get even better with these stamps!

5. My ATG gun!!!
Speaking of my DT, let me show you what one of them created.  Cheryl made (another!) super cute project.  This time the challenge was to make a New Year's project.  First up is my project I made with my two older daughters.  I thought it would be fun to make some New Year's hats.  Here's what we used:

*Elmo Party cart (the hats and confetti swirls)

*Wild Card cart (Happy New Year Sentiment)

*Peachy Keen stamps (Laffy Taffy, and Everyday Character Faces)

*Stickles

*my Gypsy - I just took the hat shape and put it as big as it would fit on a 12" x 24" mat

*ribbon bow

*crayons

I let them attack the hats with crayons!  They put clocks, and 2011 on them. 

And of course they wanted to add some Peachy Keen Faces!

Then I stuck the ribbon bows on the inside for a cute pom-pom on top!

Cheryl

"My oldest son, Bryce (8 years old) wanted to design this project on my Gypsy.  He and my 6 year old son, Owen, came up with the design.  They picked the Songbird cartridge for the font.  I helped them size it just right for our card.  They also picked out the glittery paper with the balls on it.  Bryce said the bg paper reminded him of the new year's ball.  We added lots of blingy rhinestones too! I hope like it!!"


Thank you sooooooo much to all my followers, old and new, and for celebrating this year with me.  And if you have any resolutions goals this year, I hope one of them is to spend more time (crafting or not) with your families!  I hope you all have an amazing New Year celebration, and I can't wait to start the New Year with so many new friends :o)

Family Friday

Hi Everybody!
Yaaaaaaay!  It's time for another Family Friday! Today the designers are going to show how they incorporated a handprint into their projects.  Please click on the designers name to head on over to their blogs for all the details on their projects. Since this is a family oriented design team, sometimes the designers get busy with their families and can't quite get their projects done on their regular week.  So if you see some projects that aren't the theme for the week, the designer is just making up their project.  Thanks you guys for doing another amazing job this week :O)


During the holidays, we spend more time with our families, but that doesn't always mean a crafty project gets made.  So I didn't get to make a new project with my kids this time, but here is the project I had posted for last weeks Family Friday using all my kids' handprints:

Cheryl

Becky

Christel



Family Friday

Hi Everybody!
Thanks for joining me and my fantastic design team for another Family Friday!  Today the designers are going to show what their kids (or the youngest person they know) is thankful for.  First is my project, but then please click on the designers name to head on over to their blogs for all the details on their projects.  Thanks you guys for doing another amazing job this week!!

My project was done by my kids, but what they are thankful for will be the other page in what turned out to be a double page spread!  For this page, I traced each of my kids hands, with part of their arm.  I turned their arm into the bark for the tree, and the hands as leaves.  I jokingly told my husband we have enough kids to make a forest, LOL!  They are also in order, with my oldest having her hand starting from the left, and on down to even my 9 month old baby boy!!  I used the Graphically Speaking cart (with the jumble feature) for the title (it says Precious).  I used the Give a Hoot cart for that super cute owl :o)

Isn't my 9 month old's hand sooooooo cute?!?!

Rhonda

I grew gourds ages ago and put them down stairs hanging in my basement to dry out. So when I was thinking of how to do something different for what we are thankful for I decided to let my granddaughter paint all the gourds brown, because she loves to paint. Then went from there after they dryed. Used design calander the leaf cut. cut at 6 in (shift sept) then cut the wings at 3 in the same.

*hat cut at 3 in (november real size)

*george cart 3 in stars for feet, 1and 1/2 long ovals and 1 in hearts for beak

*after paint is dry, tie ribbon around neck first, then add hat, eyes beak, gobbler then last add the leafs for feathers

*side wings hold the signs each sign says something different, one says thankful you're not a turkey, thankful for hamthankful for chicken, thankful for fish, and for the baby turkey the sign says thankful Im too cute to eat!

Raven's Project Using Simply Charmed


Becky

This is a "I am thankful for..." holder. Everyone in our family will be required to insert at least 3 things into this box before Thanksgiving and then we will read them all during Thanksgiving dinner :) This will also include my mom, MIL and Grandma!

Craft Junkie Too First Design Team Project!!

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I am unbelievably excited to show you my first project for Craft Junkie Too's Design Team!!  We were asked to make a fall project.  So here's what I came up with:

*Fabulous Finds (card base),

*Give a Hoot (owl)

*Paperdolls (tree)

*Gypsy Wanderings (grateful sentiment)

*leaf brads by Recollections

*Pink by Design stamps

*chipboard die-cuts

*Stickles

*MPS stamps

*buttons

*hemp twine

*Swiss Dots embossing folder

 I actually got this cart specifically for this cut. I always wanted to make a peek-a-boo book for my little one.

 So there is my project, I hope you like it!  Be sure to check out the projects from Design Team #2 coming soon! TFL, and hope everyone had a chance to craft today :O)

Family Friday

Hi Everybody!

For this Family Friday, I wanted to show how to make some extra storage for our kids craft supplies.  I am a huge fan of re-using stuff, and I love to save my Cricut cartridge boxes.  I have been finding more, and more uses for them.  I made a game box using one, and here I used one to make a crayon box for my daughter (I actually made two of these, one each for my 6 and 8 year old).

These are SUPER simple to make. You just cover the outside with paper, and embellish.  That's it!  Since the inside is white and plain, it makes it easier to embellish, or leave plain to match everything.  Thanks for joining me for another Family Friday :o)  Don't forget to link your projects you make for or with the kids in your life!  Hope everyone has a chance to craft today!

Family Friday

Hi Everybody,

I can't believe I totally spaced on last weeks Family Friday!  Well, I can believe it, but I'm still sorry!  Ok, so I'm on top of things this week and I have a project for you.  About a year ago (scary how long things can stay in our stash!), I bought this sign at a scrapbook convention, and I thought it was really cool, because you could use the negative and positive space.  Here's what the sign started out as:

Then I put some blue acrylic paint on it.  This was SO easy to do.  (I don't know if you're supposed to put any thing to prep it, but I didn't.)

I left the inside of the letters the natural color. I liked the shadow effect it gave.

This is what the back looked like.  I just put the pictures in the spaces, and covered any other open spaces with black paper.

And here is the final product!  I stitched around the letters with a white gel pen.  It wrote smoothly on the acrylic paint.  I then cut some of the shapes from the Cricut Lite cart B is for Boy. That is one SUPER cute cart!!  I used the Shimmer pack from DCWV. 

Start to finish this project took a couple of hours, so if you get a chance to get something like this do it!!   TFL, don't forget to enter what you make for or with the kids in your life, and hope everyone has a chance to craft today :)

Special Happy Birthday Family Friday

Hi Everybody!
This is a special Family Friday since tomorrow is my oldest daughter's 8th birthday.  She wanted to have a Cricut crafting party, and also play laser tag so that is what we're doing!  We made a special video of putting her invitations together, so I hope you all enjoy it.  You may need to take some motion sickness medicine before you watch for some of it, but you can't deny how cute she is, and her excitment is catching :) 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARISA! I LOVE YOU :)

Please show her some love and leave lots of comments! Thanks, and hope everyone has a chance to craft today :)

Family Friday

Hi Everybody!
Sorry I'm so late posting today!  It's my kids first week back at school, so life has been a little crazy!  Last week I showed part 1 of the travel kit I made for my kids to take on their trip.  Today I wanted to show part 2:

I made travel journals for them to write about the trip in.  I love my Bind-it-All! I used Going Places for all the cuts (sorry, don't remember the sizes, but the notebook is 4" x 6").

I painted the inside covers with acrylic paint.  This took 10 minutes, including the actual painting and drying time.  Kids could definitely do this step.  Just make sure you wash all paint brushes as soon as you are done using them.

I used Stampin' Up patterned paper to cover the front and back panel.

I made little goody bags for them.  I used Create-a-Critter for the crab. 

I wrote "Don't be a crab, eat some candy! Ask first!".

Thanks for joining me again for Family Friday's.  If you are not able to make a project, please feel free to leave a comment and let me know how you spent time with your kids this week!  Thanks, and hope everyone had a chance to craft today!

Family Friday #2

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Thank you sooooooooooo very much to everybody who entered my first Family Friday!  I also just wanted to add a note about this challenge.  I will provide a project for inspiration every Friday, but not an "assignment".  Things don't always (or ever?!?!) go as planned with kids, so to make it as stress-free and enjoyable as possible, I will provide inspiration, but you guys are free to post whatever project you come up with :)  Ok, so for this week, I want to show you part one of  a little travel kit I made for my 2 oldest girls.  They took a trip up north with my parents (I know, they're BRAVE), and I wanted to give them something to do on the long trip.  Details below:

 I took a plain yellow folder, and cut this title out using the Graphically Speaking cart.  Using patterned paper makes it look more decorative without having to do anything to it. 

Then I used the Princess Face Assortment from Peachy Keen stamps to give it a playful look.

Since my kids were going on a long car trip, I printed some activities from the internet, and took some worksheets and put them inside. This kit was a surprise, so I wrote directions, and a little mommy love note on the pockets of the folder. 

Since I cut this title with plain paper, I decided to emboss it with the Spots and Dots folder.  The Cuttlebug is very kid friendly, and easy to use with kids.

 More Peachy Keen faces :)

I made sure to put age appropriate activities in each folder.

That's it!  I made this for a trip, but with school coming up, this would be a great way to decorate school folders and help get the kids excited for school.  If you have Locker Talk, Making the Grade, or any of the classroom carts, you could use any of those cuts to decorate the cover.  Hope you like this, and can't wait to see what you and the kids in your life create this week!  Don't forget, if we have more than 10 entries, we will have a prize drawing.  But the main goal is still to spend time with the little ones in our lives.  Thanks again, and hope everyone has a chance to craft today!